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The former business advisors who claim that Priscilla Presley prematurely “took away from the machines” for financial reasons, submitted a changed lawsuit, The supposedly new details about Lisa Marie Presley’s last hours.
Last hours by Lisa Marie Presley
The lawsuit, submitted to the Superior Court by Los Angeles County, contains two pages that allegedly come from Priscillas Memoiren Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis, which are to be released on September 23. The extracts describe the day in detail when Elvis’ only child in a hospital in San Fernando Valley died of complications from an intestinal obstruction after an earlier stomach operation.
According to the sides marked as evidence, Priscilla hurried to her daughter’s bedside, held her hand, stroked her face and insured her love while the family gathered. Lisa Marie’s oldest daughter Riley Keough was on the plane when a “code Blue” alarm signaled that Lisa Marie’s heart had stopped.
“The next thing I remembered was the doctor who asked me what to do. They had revived Lisa’s heart, but it was unclear whether it would continue,” writes Priscilla. “I asked, ‘What kind of life would she have if we left her on the machine?’ He shook his head compassionate.
In the excerpts, Priscilla claims that Lisa Marie had “hardly any brain activity” and that the daughter, who knew her as “always so vital”, was no longer there.
Painful decision and collapse
“I thought of my girl, my wild, rebellious, passionate girl, who should be in a vegetative state for the rest of her life,” she wrote according to the documents. “I said what I had to say. ‘Take her from the machine, a doctor.’ My voice was hardly audible. ” After that, she collapsed and passed out.
“It was unbearable. I started sobbing. I don’t remember that I fell,” she said. “After that everything was dark … I don’t want to remember.”
Priscilla’s spokesman rejected a comment on the book excerpts on Friday. Her lawyers Marty Singer and Wayne Harman had already described the first version of the $ 50 million lawsuit by their ex-consultants Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko as “one of the most shameful, ridiculous, scandalous and unfounded complaints” that they have ever seen.
New allegations against Priscilla Presley
In their new statement, the lawyers reacted to further claims of the changed lawsuit on Friday, according to which Priscilla Elvis had driven their demands into early death. “Priscilla had nothing to do with the murder of JFK, she did not cover up Area 51, she did not fake the moon landing and she did not keep Bigfoot in a hut in Canada. Take off the aluminum and see reality,” explained the lawyers and threw Kruse “a calculated campaign of fraud and abuse”.
In a separate lawsuit about financial abuse of seniors, Priscilla had already claimed that they had deceived Kruse and Fialko through contracts that only gave them minority shares in companies that should earn money with their name and picture. Kruse and Fialko, in turn, claim that Priscilla deliberately signed the contracts, benefited and then dropped them when Lisa Marie’s death changed their financial situation.
Dispute over Presley assets
Lisa Marie died on January 12, 2023 at the age of 54. In the first version of her lawsuit, Kruse and Fialko claimed that Priscilla had violated Lisa Marie’s living will. It said that Lisa wanted to have “extended her life as long as possible within the framework of generally accepted medical standards”. The consultants accuse Priscilla of having switched off the machines after a few hours because she was disputed with her daughter and knew that Lisa wanted to drop her as the sole trustee of a $ 25 million insurance trust.
As Rolling Stone reported, Priscilla fought a few weeks after Lisa Marie’s death in 2016 at the “Promenade Trust”. She put them off as a co-loyalist and replaced her with Riley Keough and Ben Keough. Priscilla thus lost its influence on central Presley assets such as Graceland, the archive and Lisa Marie’s shares in Elvis Presley Enterprises.
Comparison with Riley Keough
A threatening legal dispute ended in a comparison: Riley Keough paid Priscilla one million dollars from Lisa Marie’s life insurance, and $ 50,000 for her resignation as an assistant. In addition, Priscilla has received an annual salary of $ 100,000 as the “special consultant” of the Promenade Trust for ten years.
The next hearing in the procedure for abuse of older people will be scheduled next week. The first negotiation conference in the contract dispute between Kruse and Fialko is scheduled to take place in February.